Relationships between shrubs and annual communities in a sandy desert ecosystem: A three-year study

Plant Ecology

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 191-201

  Tielbörger, Katja ^a   Kadmon, Ronen ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Annual plants; Community structure; Desert; Habitat heterogeneity; Sand dunes; Temporal environmental variation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB;

EID: 0030616670     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009766824033     Document Type: Article

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